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Removing Suggested Tiles from Firefox New Tab Page
Date: 10/9/2015
Tags: firefox
So in recent builds of Firefox new tabs have collected "suggested" site tiles. Now being marketed to and having my meta-data sold to the highest bidder is why I moved back to Firefox from Chrome about a year ago, so the appearance of "marketing" in Firefox's UI is quite concerning.

Of course you probably want to know how to turn those suggested site tiles off right? Well see that little gear icon in the top right hand corner:



Unselect the "Include suggested sites" and you're good.
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"Invalid HTTP Request Headers" in Firefox
Date: 9/1/2015
Tags: firefox
For most of 2014 I've been using Firefox because I feel it's doing a better job of looking after my privacy. However it's not without it's cost. For instance today I found some pretty quirky behaviour in the Mac build of Firefox v34.0.5:



Basically on this site it's dropping the leading "G" of the "GET" request. To make matters worse the problem is intermittent. I can reproduce with a clear cache. Internally Firebug is reporting the correct packet, but Wireshark shows the missing byte.
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